Category: VMware

Tweet Working with a new backup product here and we’re having a few issues with snapshots getting out of order and getting disk consolidation alarms, but are unable to do so. The fix I use is this shell command and then...

Tweet We ran into this issue when rebuilding some hosts. When trying to vMotion the guests to the newly rebuilt hosts, the vMotion would fail at 82% with the error “Source detected that destination failed to...

Tweet While a nice purple color, not a good way to start a Monday: Generated on a HP DL580 G7 running ESXi 4.1 U1 Install patch here: HP Sourcing Driver If patch is already applied, then possible hardware issue. Make sure latest...

Tweet Nothing special, but might be handy. Were having a few small issues with opening firewall ports and which ones today. I threw together this doc to help a few other team members. It is all the ports found in KB1012382...

Tweet After converting a physical to a virtual, there is some clean-up that should be done. Non-existing hardware devices should be removed. Software which controlled the legacy hardware should be uninstalled. Here’s how...

Tweet We’re in the middle of a VMware migration from 3.5 to 4. Some of the older VMs have small C drives, and since Microsoft loves to release tons of patches, they’re running out of space. In the past you could...